Basilica of the Visitation, Wambierzyce

Basilica of the Visitation (Polish: Bazylika Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Marii Panny, Sanktuarium Wambierzyckiej Królowej Rodzin, German: Basilika Mariä Heimsuchung) is a Baroque basilica minor located in Wambierzyce, Poland.

[1] The present basilica is located on a hill, where in the twelfth-century, stood a wooden figure of Mary, the Mother of God.

[2] In 1512, Ludwik von Panwitz raised a greater church, constructed out of brick.

Between 1715 and 1723, another church was built by Count Franciszek Antony von Goetzen, which stands to the present day.

In August 1987, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński had crowned the statue of Mary, the Mother of God, giving her the name of Wambierzyce Queen of Families (Wambierzycka Królowa Rodzin).

Interior of the basilica.